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Noun (2)computers
- a machine for performing calculations automaticallySynonyms: computing machinecomputing devicedata processorelectronic computerinformation processing systemType of machineKinds analog computer, server, home computer, predictor, Turing machine, tablet, pari-mutuel machine, quantum computer, digital computer, number cruncher +2 morePart of platformParts memory, keyboard, cathode-ray tube, computer circuit, chip, disk cache, monitor, peripheral +6 more
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)Synonyms: calculatorreckonerfigurerestimatorType of expertKinds subtracter, number cruncher, statistician, adder
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Translations
Noun programmable electronic device
- Spanish
- ordenador
- French
- ordinateur
- German
- Computer
- Italian
- computer
- Portuguese
- computador
- Turkish
- bilgisayar
- Russian
- компью́тер kompʹjútɛr
- Arabic
- حَاسُوب ḥāsūb
- Chinese
- 电脑 diànnǎo
- Japanese
- コンピュータ konpyūta
36 more languages
- Dutch
- computer
- Polish
- komputer
- Swedish
- dator
- Greek
- υπολογιστής ypologistís
- Korean
- 컴퓨터 keompyuteo
- Indonesian
- komputer
- Vietnamese
- máy vi tính
- Hungarian
- számítógép
- Portuguese (PT)
- computador
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 電腦 diànnǎo
- Albanian
- kompjuter
- Breton
- urzhiataer
- Catalan
- ordinador
- Corsican
- cumputatore
- Czech
- počítač
- Danish
- computer
- Esperanto
- komputilo
- Estonian
- arvuti
- Finnish
- tietokone
- Georgian
- კომპიუტერი ḳomṗiuṭeri
- Hebrew
- מַחְשֵׁב makhshév
- Icelandic
- tölva
- Kurdish
- kompûter
- Latvian
- dators
- Lithuanian
- kompiuteris
- Malagasy
- solosaina
- Norwegian
- datamaskin
- Romanian
- computer
- Scottish Gaelic
- coimpiutair
- Serbo-Croatian
- računalo
- Slovak
- počítač
- Slovenian
- računalnik
- Swahili
- kompyuta
- Walloon
- copiutrece
- Welsh
- cyfrifiadur
- Yiddish
- קאָמפּיוטער kompyuter
Noun person who computes (dated)
- Spanish
- computador
- Portuguese
- calculista
- Russian
- вычисли́тель vyčislítelʹ
- Dutch
- rekenaar
- Polish
- rachmistrz
- Portuguese (PT)
- computador
- Finnish
- laskija
- Georgian
- გამომთვლელი gamomtvleli
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who computes.
2. Computers an electronic device for performing calculations automatically. It consists of a clock to provide voltage pulses to synchronize the operations of the devices within the computer, a central processing unit, where the arithmetical and logical operations are performed on data, a random-access memory, where the programs and data are stored for rapid access, devices to input data and output results, and various other peripheral devices of widely varied function, as well as circuitry to support the main operations. This modern sense of computer comprises the stored-program computers, in which multiple steps in a calculation may be stored within the computer itself as instructions in a program, and are then executed by the computer without further intervention of the operator. Different types of computer are variously called analog computer, number cruncher, number-cruncher, digital computer, and pari-mutuel machine, totalizer, totaliser, totalizator, totalisator. Syn. — data processor, electronic computer, information processing system.
3. Computers same as digital computer.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<publication> A journal of the IEEE Computer Society.
(1995-03-10)
<computer> A machine that can be programmed to manipulate symbols. Computers can perform complex and repetitive procedures quickly, precisely and reliably and can store and retrieve large amounts of data. Most computers in use today are electronic digital computers (as opposed to analogue computers).
The physical components from which a computer is constructed are known as hardware, which can be of four types: CPU, memory, input devices and output devices.
The CPU (central processing unit) executes software programs which tell the computer what to do. Input and output (I/O) devices allow the computer to communicate with the user and the outside world. There are many kinds of memory or storage - fast, expensive, short term memory (e.g. RAM) to hold intermediate results, and slower, cheaper, long-term memory (e.g. magnetic disk and magnetic tape) to hold programs and data that are not being used immediately.
Computers today are often connected to a network (which may be part of the Internet). This allows them to be accessed from elsewhere and to exchange data with other computers.
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